Michael B. Jordan surprised his girlfriend, Lori Harvey, with an early birthday party Monday. The model turns 25 on January 13, however, the Journal for Jordan star decided to have a celebration for her three days in advance at Nobu Malibu in California, according to Page Six.
Harvey’s manager, Tre Thomas, announced at the party, “[Michael] loves you and can’t be here tonight, but enjoy your night. It’s on him.” Although a specific reason was not given for Jordan’s absence, it is believed he was busy working on Creed III which he is starring in and directing.
The model shared several videos in her Instagram Story, walking into a room decked out in balloons, including a big silver “25” for her milestone birthday. The tables are adorned with beautiful white floral arrangements, as well as custom menus that read “Lori’s 25th.”
“Thank you for my surprise party baby @michaelbjordan,” the model wrote on one post. “Sisters,” she wrote for another photo which featured Normani and actress Ryan Destiny from grown-ish.
In other news, Lori’s father, Steve Harvey, says he will not star in another comedy special because cancel culture has killed comedy.
“Nobody can say anything he wants to — Chris Rock can’t, Kevin Hart can’t, Cedric the Entertainer can’t, D.L. Hughley can’t. I can go down the list. The only person that can say what they want to say on stage is Dave Chappelle because he’s not sponsor-driven,” Harvey said Tuesday during the Television Critics Association press tour, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Finally, following Michelle Obama‘s appearance on the season debut episode of black-ish, more guest stars are lined up. Babyface, Magic Johnson, Vivica A. Fox, Simone Biles, Daveed Diggs, and more will appear in the eighth and final season, Deadline reports.
Netflix has reportedly given the green light to two sequels to Red Notice, the streaming platform’s hit film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot.
The action comedy, which features Reynolds as a wily art thief who forms an unlikely partnership with Johnson’s FBI profiler to catch Gadot’s criminal mastermind, debuted in November, and became the most-watched movie in Netflix’s history.
It still sits in the top slot on Netflix’s global rankings.
While the end of the film clearly set up a sequel, it wasn’t confirmed until now. Deadline reports Netflix is ready to shoot two Red Notice follow-ups back-to-back in early 2023, provided the trio of stars can sync up their busy schedules.
Also returning is writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber.
Deadline points out that Universal Pictures initially balked at the budget of the globe-trotting adventure film — which included hefty salaries for its three stars and for Thurber — before Netflix jumped into the mix as producer and distributor. The gamble certainly paid off, as the streaming giant now officially has a franchise on its hands.
Could Pete Davidson‘s next celebrity hookup be …Oscar? The Saturday Night Live cast member, whose dating history reads like a showbiz Who’s Who, is reportedly in talks to possibly host the 94th Annual Academy Awards.
Page Six reports producers of the telecast — which will have a host for the first time since 2018 for this year’s show — are reportedly in contact with Davidson’s team.
“He gets a demographic that is hard to get,” a source explains to the publication. “He is in a good space, his career is doing well and he is on the rise. He is a sex symbol, unlikely, but he is big with a certain generation.”
As evidence of the latter, a New Year’s Eve special the actor and stand-up comic co-hosted with Miley Cyrus attracted 6.3 million viewers, particularly those in a younger demographic that has in recent years escaped Oscars producers.
What certainly would not hurt in that department is that Davidson is reportedly dating reality show royalty and mogul Kim Kardashian, who has some 278 million Instagram followers — roughly 267 million more potential viewers than the last Oscars broadcast attracted.
As previously reported, Spider-Man series star Tom Holland was also contacted by producers of the Oscars telecast as a possible host. Given his popularity with potential younger viewers — not to mention that of his Emmy-winning girlfriend and Spidey co-star Zendaya — it’s even more evident the telecast is hoping to, to use a Hollywood term, “skew younger” this time around.
The 94th Annual Academy Awards will air March 27 on ABC.
Chris Pratt may not be perfect, but at least his pants now are. That’s the gist of his first new ad as a brand ambassador for TravisMathew, a sports-lifestyle label.
“These pants are perfect,” the Marvel movie star and Jurassic World series lead says in a voice-over as he admires himself in a mirror.
“They’re comfortable, stretchy, versatile. I want to be perfect as these pants,” he thinks, before saying aloud, pensively, “Can they make me perfect?”
What follows is a montage of Pratt reading lines badly, breaking a window with an overzealous indoor golf putt, and watching a newly installed closet rod collapse.
“It’s definitely just the pants,” he reconsiders.
Pratt captioned the spot by saying, “Dreeeams can come true!!! Thanks to @travismathew I am now a #ProGolfer. I know what you’re thinking… ‘No he’s not.’ But you are wrong. Because, yes I am. I mean… Why else would the world’s top golf and lifestyle brand insist I wear only their clothes on the course? Obviously they saw my swing. Rest is history.”
Pratt will be seen next onscreen — where directors and editors make sure things appear perfect — in Jurassic Word: Dominion, which opens June 10, and in Thor: Love and Thunder, which hits theaters July 8.
In conjunction with the upcoming release of the Dark Knight’s latest onscreen adventure, The Batman, Warner Bros. has teamed up with the world’s darkest cookie for a limited run of Oreos.
“Two icons unite,” a moody new spot teases, as the cookies animate to portray the superhero, and his Batmobile.
“Who? Have you got a clue? Let’s play a game, just we and you,” a narrator intones in the spirit of the Caped Crusader’s nemesis in the film, Riddler.
One side of each cookie is embossed with Batman’s face, and the treats come packaged in The Batman-branded sleeves.
Unfortunately for fans in the States, the limited-edition Oreos won’t be on store shelves here, however you can bet they’ll be up for sale on eBay and elsewhere.
The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Paul Dano as Riddler, hits theaters March 4.
He should have used Thor’s massive axe Stormbreaker. In a new Instagram post, Chris Hemsworth is getting in some practical exercise, by trying to split a log.
The operative word is “Trying.”
To the giggling delight of his pal and Centr app trainer Luke Zocchi, who is filming, Hemsworth chops away, to no avail.
After six tries, Thor splits it, and screams and flexes triumphantly. “When at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try again and again” he posted.
Suffice it to say, he’s no match for Chris Evans in the log-splitting game — at least onscreen. In Captain America: Civil War, Evans’ heroic alter-ego literally splits a log in half with his bare hands.
“I’ve won the Golden Ticket!” That’s the word from Ming-Na Wen, who appeared on Good Morning AmericaWednesday, the day the Star Wars spin-off series’ third episode dropped on Disney+.
The seemingly ageless 58-year-old actress is tickled she’s hit a rarefied high-water mark, known as the Disney Trifecta: That is, she voiced Mulan in Disney’s 1998 animated film of the same name; she followed that as special agent Melinda May in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and now plays assassin Fennec Shand on The Book of Boba Fett.
“I’ve won the golden ticket,” she laughed to fellow Disney Legend Robin Roberts. “That will be on my tombstone, I think, ‘I’ve won the golden ticket. ‘”
A life-long geek and an out and proud former alumna of her high school’s Sci-Fi Club, Ming-Na explained Star Wars was always a presence in her life. “When I was a little kid, you know…I would like pretend I’m like the female Han Solo because I loved Luke, I loved Princess Leia and I wanted to like be the rogue warrior, you know, to be in battles with them.”
She adds, “Never in my life did I imagine that I would actually become a character…[alongside] the legendary Boba Fett of all things. I still pinch myself. I really do because I’m a kid!”
The actress says of her Star Wars stardom, “[I]t’s just one of those moments where you go, ‘Wow, I’ve manifested this and if I can do it, anyone can, anyone can.'”
She explains, “You know, a little Chinese girl, you know, an immigrant coming to this country with a single mom…” she says, calling her career, ‘the epitome of the American dream.'”
This morning, the nominations for the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced on Instagram Live by The Mandalorian and Dopesick star Rosario Dawson and tick, tick… BOOM!‘s Vanessa Hudgens. The online announcement began with an introduction from current SAG president Fran Drescher.
Dawson and Hudgens were enthusiastic throughout their presentation, riffing on nominated shows and fellow performers they love — Dawson called Yellowstone “The Sopranos with horses,” and Hudgens cheered when announcing her tick, tick co-star Andrew Garfield‘s Best Actor nomination.
As previously reported, the 28th Annual SAG Awards will take place Sunday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. Eastern time, broadcast live on TNT and TBS from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.
Helen Mirren will be the 57th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award.
Here are a list of this year’s nominees across film and TV:
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Caitriona Balfe – Belfast
Cate Blanchett – Nightmare Alley
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Ruth Negga – Passing
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Ben Affleck – The Tender Bar
Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Jared Leto – House of Gucci
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Lady Gaga – House of Gucci
Jennifer Hudson – Respect
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick … Boom!
Will Smith – King Richard
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Belfast CODA Don’t Look Up House of Gucci King Richard
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture Black Widow Dune The Matrix: Resurrections No Time to Die Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Murray Bartlett – The White Lotus
Oscar Isaac – Scenes from a Marriage
Michael Keaton – Dopesick
Ewan McGregor – Halston
Evan Peters – Mare of Easttown
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus
Cynthia Erivo – Genius: Aretha
Margaret Qualley – Maid
Jean Smart – Mare of Easttown
Kate Winslet – Mare of Easttown
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Michael Douglas – The Kominsky Method
Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Elle Fanning – The Great
Sandra Oh – The Chair
Jean Smart – Hacks
Juno Temple – Ted Lasso
Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series The Great Hacks The Kominsky Method Only Murders in the Building Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Brian Cox – Succession
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
Kieran Culkin – Succession
Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game
Jeremy Strong – Succession
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Jennifer Aniston – The Morning Show
Jung Ho-yeon – Squid Game
Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid’s Tale
Sarah Snook – Succession
Reese Witherspoon – The Morning Show
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series The Handmaid’s Tale The Morning Show Squid Game Succession Yellowstone
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series Cobra Kai The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Loki Mare of Easttown Squid Game
Dexter: New Blood has become the most-watched series in Showtime’s history, averaging more than six million viewers a week across its 10-episode run, according to Variety. Additionally, the season finale brought in three million viewers in its Sunday debut, making it the biggest Showtime finale in more than eight years. The final episode of the Dexter sequel, starring Michael C. Hall, also surpassed the previous record-holder, Homeland season three’s finale from 2013, as well as setting a record for Showtime with two million of the finale’s viewers coming from streaming and on-demand platforms…
ABC has picked up Station 19 for a sixth season, the network announced on Tuesday. The news comes just one day after its parent show, Grey’s Anatomy, was renewed for a 19th season. Station 19, which follows a group of heroic Seattle firefighters as they put their lives and hearts on the line, stars Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jason George, Boris Kodjoe, Grey Damon, Barrett Doss, Jay Hayden, Okieriete Onaodowan, Danielle Savre and Miguel Sandoval. Station 19 airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC…
Huzzah! Hulu has renewed The Great for a 10-episode third season. The series, from The Favourite writer Tony McNamara, stars Elle Fanning as the fiercely feminist Catherine the Great, who plots to overthrow her petulant husband, Emperor Peter III of Russia, played by Nicholas Hoult. Season two, which picks up with Catherine about to take her place on the throne, debuted on Hulu this past November…
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Suicide Squad star Viola Davis is in talks to star in the original Amazon drama Two Butterflies, according to Deadline. The plot follows two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced to reunite when one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility. Davis also serves as a co-producer on the project…
Break out the pom-poms! Season two of Cheer arrives on Netflix today, two years after season one took the country by storm, with the COVID-19 pandemic, along with a serious criminal accusation leveled against one of the Navarro College teammates threatening to upend the 2020 cheer season.
After season one made cheerleader Jerry Harris a star, he was charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse and pornography. Cheer creator and director Greg Whiteley tells ABC Audio season two will devote an entire episode to the allegations.
“The moment Jerry is arrested and there is a ripple effect and the team can think of nothing else. A lot of this is happening while we are dark as a film crew because of the pandemic,” he explains.
“We’re seeing the aftermath of all of it, and that whole storyline cast a very long shadow on this particular team…something [they’re] continuing to wrestle with and grapple with,” Whiteley adds.
Season two starts in early 2020, with the next big competition scheduled for April, after the team has “spent hours and hours and hours, each day…preparing for this competition.”
“And as they’re getting closer to [the pandemic], we are filming this drama in real time. And they get the news that in fact, Daytona was shut down.”
Season one made coach Monica Aldama and her Navarro College cheer team super famous, something Whiteley admits none of them could’ve predicted, and that brings up some questions as we start season two.
“Are they still able to put in the very rigorous preparation that’s necessary to be ready for Daytona? How do other teammates feel about certain teammates of theirs that are becoming famous and they’re not quite as famous?” he tells ABC Audio. “And all that was interesting to us.”
